“I immediately heard the melody in my head. I just felt intuitively, ‘This is gonna be something’”: How Madonna created a dancefloor classic — with a sample that other artists could only dream of using

Madonna in 2005.

Few artists have reinvented themselves with quite such aplomb as Madonna, and on her 14th studio album she shapeshifted yet again, delving back to ’70s disco to produce a sleek album with a title that spoke volumes: Confessions On A Dancefloor.

After the lacklustre album Music (2000) and its politically-fuelled follow-up American Life (2003), the Queen of Pop made the decision to give the people exactly what they wanted — unbridled fun under a gigantic disco mirrorball.